http://www.notes.xythian.net Links, technical notes, whatnot. Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:44:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Adobe products are rare in that I've never regretted upgrading -- each upgrade has brought changes I've liked enough to think the upgrade was worthwhile. Contrast this with Quicken, where I've regretted every upgrade as it made the product slower and less reliable (until finally I've said "no ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2008/03/29/product-upgrades/ I just spent a bit reviewing a list of the feeds that hadn't had any new posts for a while and finding a bunch that had moved. Instead of serving up a nice HTTP 301 with the new feed they instead had a post saying "Here's my new ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/12/10/breaking-links-and-feeds/ It's All Text! is a pretty handy Firefox extension. It lets you set up an external editor and puts a little 'edit' button in the corner of every textarea that pops open an external editor of your choosing. Then it watches the file the external editor is editing ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/12/09/its-all-text-firefox-extension/ I've recently started moving my linux box to a new x86_64 machine running Ubuntu 7.10. I searched for references to this bug but didn't find anything with Google or launchpad, so I wanted to make a note of it so future victims can see what is going on ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/10/24/python-cdb-032-52ubuntu2-with-python-25-causes-double-free-corruption-crash-on-dealloc/ I've previous posted about using PixVue to edit image metadata directly from Windows Explorer.   I just stumbled across Microsoft Photo Info while going to download Microsoft RAW Image Viewer so I could see thumbnails for CR2 files (Canon RAW images) in Explorer. Microsoft Photo ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/09/24/microsoft-pro-photo-downloads/ I've been playing with Adobe Flex which I'll probably have something to say about soon. Flex uses ActionScript which bears a remarkable similarity to JavaScript. It's not quite the same but it's close enough that I haven't stumbled too badly with it working from JavaScript knowledge.  As with any "new" language ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/09/17/flex-javaactionscript/ I'm playing with Adobe Contribute CS3.   I haven't had much to say here lately, but maybe a clever client will remind me to post more.  I've been posting the occasional photo. I figure at this point that folks interested in my photos have probably subscribed to the feed there so ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/09/17/adobe-contribute/ I picked up a Logitech MX Revolution wireless laser mouse a week or so ago. It replaced my 3 year old Logitech wireless laser mouse. Who doesn't like wireless lasers? The new mouse is shaped a little differently than the old mouse and has a couple more ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/07/16/logitech-mx-revolution/ A tool and a library I've been using or at least trying out: Launchy Free, open-source Windows app that indexes Program Files and any other directories you tell it to. Then alt-space pops up a command line box and it autocompletes as you type. I ... http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/07/13/tools-and-libraries/ Live Free or Die Hard is everything I hoped it would be. http://www.notes.xythian.net/2007/07/06/live-free-or-die-hard/